Basic Temperature-Humidity Sensor Breakout - DHT11

The DHT11 is a basic, ultra low-cost digital temperature and humidity sensor. It uses a capacitive humidity sensor and a thermistor to measure the surrounding air, and spits out a digital signal on the data pin (no analog input pins needed).

Its fairly simple to use, but requires careful timing to grab data. The only real downside of this sensor is you can only get new data from it once every 2 seconds, so when using the Arduino library, sensor readings can be up to 2 seconds old.

Features:

• Low cost
• 3 to 5V power and I/O
• 2.5mA max current use during conversion (while requesting data)
• Good for 20-80% humidity readings with 5% accuracy
• Good for 0-50°C temperature readings ±2°C accuracy
• No more than 1 Hz sampling rate (once every second)

Dimensions:

• 29.20mm x 14.60mm x 7.40mm

Documents:

• Arduino Library and sample code
• Datasheet (English)
• Datasheet (Chinese)
• Check out the DHT22 datasheet for senor protocol and timing.